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Entrepreneurship Evangelist Comes to Town

by Geof Lambert
Saturday, March 24, 2007. 12:58PM
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Tim Draper
Tim Draper in the house
At TechCoire March 2007, Rancho Cordova
On Thursday evening Tim Draper graced the presence of the TechCoire group of technology disciples at the Marriott in Rancho Cordova.

He talked about on the topic of Change the World. He discussed how technology and entrepreneurs can really make an impact and change the world.

The discussion was very informative lively, interactive and engaging.

He even talked about DMT, which he refers to as "near-thought communication".

You can find the full audio clip of the song on the RiskMaster website:

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For those who are not familiar with Tim here is his "official bio" from the DFJ website:

Timothy C. Draper

Founder, Managing Director

Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mr. Draper serves on the boards of Glam.com, Tagworld, SocialText, decentral.tv, and Chroma Graphics. Previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY) and Digidesign (AVID), among others.

Mr. Draper launched the Draper Affiliate Network, an international network of early-stage venture capital funds with offices in over 30 cities around the globe. He founded or co-founded DFJ EPlanet (global), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham (NYC), Zone Ventures (LA), Wasatch Ventures (Salt Lake City), , Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburg), Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara), and DFJ Dragon (Shanghai).

As an advocate for entrepreneurs and free markets, Mr. Draper is regularly featured as a keynote speaker in entrepreneurial conferences throughout the world, has been recognized as a leader in his field through numerous awards and honors, and has frequent TV radio, and headline appearances. He was #7 on Forbes Midas List and #52 on the list of the most influential Harvard Alumni.

Mr. Draper is also the course creator and Chairman of BizWorld, a 501c3 organization built around simulated teaching of entrepreneurship and business to children. He served on the California State Board of Education. In November of 2000, Mr. Draper launched a statewide cyber-initiative on school choice for the California General Election. He is a member of Singapore’s Economic Advisory Council and Ukraine’s Orange Circle. He is on the Board of U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Saturday, March 24, 2007. 03:22PM by Geof Lambert
That most certainly is Ilya! If Jesse would get the attachment editor up and running....I'd make note of that and Gopan and Ed as well!
Saturday, March 24, 2007. 03:07PM by Gillian Parrillo
Wow, is that SEA's own Ilya standing next to Tim?